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...company, earned an M.B.A. in night school and a reputation for decisiveness and innovation while working his way up at GM. As head of the Adam Opel operation in West Germany in the early 1980s, for example, he was credited with igniting the transformation of GM's inefficient European arm into a powerhouse. Overseas car operations contributed $2.6 billion of the company's $4.2 billion in 1989 earnings. Having won his stripes under the hood, Stempel must now take swift action to restore GM's sharply reduced share , of U.S. auto sales. During the nearly ten years that Smith...
...when I wrestled playfully with my boyfriend. I had always thought of myself as strong; I certainly fought enough with my older brother when we were little. But 10 years later, while wrestling with my average-sized boyfriend, I suddenly realized how vulnerable I was. He playfully pinned my arm, and I laughed. But when I tried to push his arm away, I couldn...
Keverian, who won the speaker's gavel as a proponent of House reform, has repeatedly said he will not use strong-arm tactics to win support. But his reluctance to press for a new tax increase has frustrated many Democrats, who have traditionally supported Keverian but want to put the state's budget woes behind them...
...that all you're eating?" she asked. When I said yes, she squeezed my arm and smiled. "No wonder you're so little," she said in a congratulatory tone...
Educated at the Huguenots' Gray Cloister High School in Berlin, where he studied the viola, De Maiziere had to abandon his musical career when he developed a neural impairment in his left arm. He then took up legal studies and eventually became known for his defense of conscientious objectors and other dissidents. Slight of build and speaking with a soft lisp, De Maiziere, 50, is a religious man who has never demonstrated an appetite for public life. But he answered the call when he was asked last fall to cleanse the CDU of the stigma it bore from decades...